“Garden Cities and Communites for a Sustainable Future,” the third international Vastu conference, will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, April 5-7th, 2019.

Its presentations and workshops will be aimed at builders, planners, and developers. The first day of discussions and presentations by experts from three continents will be followed by charrette-style workshops that will go deeply into applying Maharishi Vastu rules and principles to specific parcels and development concepts.

The last Vastu developers conference, held at the Rendlesham Garden Village, Suffolk, UK, was a resounding success drawing 41 people from across Europe and the United States.

The largest public Vastu community in the world, North Campus Village in Iowa, USA, has completed and occupied 17 of the 20 buildings in its Phase Five. The remaining three town home buildings, containing eight units in total, will be occupied by the end of winter. This will bring the total number of units in North Campus Village to over 100. The project’s developers have also begun construction on the first buildings in Phase Six, which will also consist of townhomes.

Mandala Village & Resort in Vero Beach, Florida USA has reached a landmark stage, with preliminary planning approval secured, site engineering in process, and Maharishi Vastu building designs being developed in detail. Construction of this 190-unit, mixed-use community will begin in 2019.